Gotchas

Surprising behavior in Rails, Ruby, and the gems around them -- what breaks, why, and how to work around it.

Rails titleize Breaks Names, Hyphens, and Apostrophes

titleize splits McAllen, drops hyphens, skips capitals after apostrophes, and chops ALL-CAPS words around acronyms. Here's a safer way to recase text.

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EncryptedConfiguration#key? Missing Before Rails 7.1

delegate_missing_to turns a missing predicate into a confusing ArgumentError, not a NoMethodError.

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Requiring an ActiveSupport Leaf File Breaks on Rails 7.1

require 'active_support/x' alone raises a deprecator NoMethodError unless the parent library loads first.

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